RE: Base tag

Soo... what you're saying -- in effect -- is that use of the base tag requires us to use absolute addressing, but using the page on
which the base tag appears as the origin of the addressing system instead of the server root directory. ??

If the above is correct, does it also mean that the base tag should be used one time only, on the 'entry' or top-level page of a
site's directory tree, and that pages on the same server but outside the directory tree below the base tag could not be accessed
except by fully qualified external links...right??

Mike H.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mount" <steve(at)saltyrain.com>
To: "Mike H" <ironmike(at)inav.net>; <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: base tag


> Since all relative URLs will use the new base, if you refer to a page in the
> same directory, you will have to provide the full path to that page.  In the
> example given, we had a page in /1/2/3/page.html and an image in
> /images/picture.jpg.  With the base tag setting the base URL to /
> (essentially), for page.html to refer to /1/2/3/page2.html, the url would
> have to be: <a href="/1/2/3/page2.html"> (or <a href="1/2/3/page2.html">)
> instead of just <a href="page2.html">.  Also, any relative pathnames would
> need to be redone:
>
> <a href="../4/page.html">
>
> would have to change to
>
> <a href="/1/2/4/page.html"> or <a href="1/2/4/page.html">
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike H" <ironmike(at)inav.net>
> To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:47 PM
> Subject: base tag
>
> >
> > >>Alternately, you can use add "base" tag in each page's head, though it
> may
> > cause other problems, as all relative URLs will use the new base:<<
> >
> > My question is: what "other problems"?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Mike Hopkins
> > ironmike(at)inav.net
> >
>
>
>

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